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Testimony for Maine's
131st Legislative Session

Check out below for a continuously updated repository of stories from Mainers across the state who are demanding better, more reliable broadband access.

2023 Maine Legislative Session Testimony

  • LD 422: An Act to Eliminate the Requirement That Municipalities Provide Public Notice in Newspapers

    • What the bill says:​

      • "[A] municipality required by this Title to place a notice in a newspaper may meet this requirement by placing the notice on its publicly accessible website, as long as the notice on the website contains all information required to be published in a newspaper."

    • Our position:

      • Ought Not To Pass: "Until such time that everyone in the State has adequate broadband connectivity, and municipalities and counties are able to maintain adequate websites, and everyone knows how to navigate and engage with the internet, removing the requirement to print municipal public notices in newspapers is taking away the right to know for tens of thousands of Maine citizens."​

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2022 Maine Legislative Session Testimony

  • LD 1894: An Act To Support Municipal Broadband Infrastructure through Incentives and Competition

  • LD 2003: An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions

2021 Maine Legislative Session Testimony

  • LD 221: 2022-2023 Biennial Budget

  • LD 848: An Act to Increase High-speed Internet in Rural Maine

  • LD 1118: An Act to Promote Reliable Rural High-speed Internet

  • LD 1219: A Resolve, To Facilitate the Modernization and Streamlining of the Utility Pole Attachment Process

  • LD 1235: An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Connect Maine with a World-class Internet Infrastructure

  • LD 1432: An Act to Update the Municipal Gigabit Broadband Network Access Fund

  • LD 1484: An Act To Enhance the ConnectMaine Authority's Capacity To Provide World-class Internet

  • LD 1555: An Act To Fund Broadband Internet Infrastructure for Marginalized Groups in the State

  • LD 1733: An Act To Provide Allocations for the Distribution of State Fiscal Recovery Funds

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